'Mormama' Is A House Built On Quicksand
Kit Reed's would-be Southern Gothic chiller starts strong, with an amnesiac man stumbling into a house haunted by family secrets — but is ultimately undone by issues of plot, pacing and voice work.
by Amal El-Mohtar
Jun 14, 2017
3 minutes
For years now I've been engaged in a conversation with myself about horror and what I want from it.
I often find myself prefacing reviews of horror and horror-adjacent literature with the disclaimer that I think I'm a poor reader of it, only aware of and appreciating its commonplaces when they're turned on their heads. In film, I loved and without having enjoyed a long lineage of zombie films or slasher flicks; what I
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